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SABBATH-SCHOOL LESSONS

THE PROPHECIES OF DANIEL

FOR SENIOR CLASSES

First ,uarter, 1904

LESSON I.—Prophecy Illustrated by Nebuchadnezzar's

Dream.

JANUARY 2,

1904.

Questions.

T. Repeat Deut. 29:29. What things does this text

say belong unto God? To whom do those things be-

long which have been revealed? What is a revelation?

Repeat Amos 3:7. Through whom does the Lord

here promise to reveal His secrets?

Repeat Hosea

:to. Through whom does the

Lord say He has spoken? Has He given more than one

vision? What has He made use of in thus giving light

through the prophets? What word might be used in

place of "similitudes" ?—Symbols.

\\That

prophetic book in the Old Testament deals

most largely in similitudes or symbols?—The book of

Daniel, written in the days of Babylon and of Medo-

Persia.

By what symbol was the future revealed in the

dream of Daniel 2? Dan.

: r , 31.

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Describe the experience of the king in seeking an

interpretation of his dream. Verses

2-10.

What con-

fession was wrung from the wise men of Babylon ?

Verse II.

Were there any in Babylon who had knowledge of

a God able to make known His ways in human flesh?

Relate their experience. Verses 13-23.

What bold request did Daniel make of the chief

captain, and with what result? Verses 24-30.

What was the dream of the king ? Repeat verses

31-35.

1o. What kingdom was symbolized by the head of

gold? Verses 37, 38.

1. What metal represents the second universal king-

dom, and what is said of that power? Verse 39, first

part. What power followed Babylon ? Dan. 5 :28.

. 12.

What did the brazen portion represent? Dan.

2:39. What kingdom followed Media and Persia? See

Dan. 8:2o, 21.

13.

What metal represented the kingdom symbolized

by the legs and feet of the image? Give the prophet's

description of this kingdom. Dan. 2:40-42. What

power answers to the symbol? Note

14.

Will these smaller kingdoms that have arisen out

of the fourth monarchy of Rome ever be joined as one

again ? Verse 43. Note 3.

15.

What will be the next step in the prophecy?

Verse 44. Is there any doubt about it? Verse 45.

How sure is prophecy declared to be?

Peter I :16-21.

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i6. Repeat first sentence of Dan. z :28. Then for

whose special benefit was this prophecy given.

Notes.

The special providence of God is seen in giving the

dream; in causing it to make such an impression upon the

king's mind that he could not forget that he had had a remark-

able dream; in thus exposing the fraud of the so-called wise

men of Babylon; in causing the king to overlook the wisest

man •in all Babylon, when he summoned the wise men to make

known the dream; in causing the king to grant Daniel time

(verse so), which he had refused to do for the others; in thus

bringing the king to acknowledge the true God (verse 47); in

thus promoting Daniel to an exalted place in the kingdom, for

the further accomplishment of the divine purpose.

The mighty empire that followed Grecia was Rome.

Gibbon, the historian, adopts the very symbolism of the proph-

ecy to describe the character of this crushing power as the

successor of the earlier universal kingdom, speaking thus:

"The arms of the republic, sometimes vanquished in battle,

always victorious in war, advanced with rapid steps to the

Euphrates, the Danube, the Rhine, and the ocean; and the

images of gold, or silver, or brass, that might serve to repre-

sent the nations or their kings, were successively broken by

the iron monarchy of Rome." Later in its history the strength

as of iron was weakened, and after the division into lesser

kingdoms, the empire was indeed "partly strong and partly

brittle," as the marginal reading puts it.

It is well known that, by intermarriage, the royal houses

of Europe are more or less closely related; but by none of

these matrimonial alliances have ruling houses been able to

reunite the divided empire, which is to remain divided until

the stone smites the image.

LESSON II.—The History of Nations Foretold.

JANUARY

Questions.

i. When did Daniel have the vision recorded in this

chapter? Repeat Dan. 7:i. Note 1.

"One dollar now is of more value to the work than ten dollars

will be at some future period."

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Repeat verse 2. What two symbols are used in

this verse?

In prophecy what do winds symbolize? Isa.

21 :1, 2.; Jer. 25 :32, 33.

What are symbolized by the sea or waters ? Isa.

8 :7 ; Rev. 17 :15 ; Isa. 17 :12, 13 ; Jer. 51 :42.

What did Daniel behold, as the result of strife and

commotion among the nations and peoples of earth?

Repeat Dan. 7 :3.

What was symbolized by these four great beasts?

Repeat verse 17.

Repeat verse 4. What was this first kingdom?

Note 2.

How does the lion compare with the other beasts

of prey ? Prov. 3o :3o. How does Babylon compare

with other nations? Isa. 13:19. What other charac-

teristic of Babylon was symbolized by "eagle's wings"?

Deut. 28 49 ; 2 Sam. I :23. What change did the

prOphet see come over this symbol? What change in

the kingdom of Babylon was thus indicated? Jer.

51 :3o; Isa. 21 :3, 4. Note 3...

Repeat verse 5. What two kingdoms united in

the conquest and overthrow of Babylon? Isa. 21 :2.

(Elam is but another name for Persia.) What was

symbolized by the bear raising itself up on one side ?

See marginal reading, verse 5. Note 4. What by the

three ribs in the mouth of the bear? Note 5.

DD. Repeat verse 6. What special characteristic does

the leopard possess? What, then, would be symbolized

by four wings added to this swift-footed beast? Note

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6. What is symbolized by the four heads upon the

leopard? Note 7.

1. Repeat verse 7. What is symbolized by this

fourth beast ? Verses 23 and 24, first part. Here, as

in the second chapter, the symbol designates Rome, the

mighty power that followed Grecia. Note 8.

12.

Repeat verse 8. Concerning what did Daniel

specially desire further information? Verses 19,

20.

What information did he receive ? Verse 24.

13.

What did Daniel behold on the part of the power

symbolized by this little horn ? Verse 21.

14.

How long was the oppression of this power to

be felt by the saints? Verse

22.

15.

Then what will certainly follow the kingdoms

represented by these four beasts ? Verses 26, 27.

Notes.

Belshazzar reigned conjointly with his father, Nabo-

nadius, during the last three years of the Babylonian Empire,

and it was at the close of this three years' reign when, as the

sacred historian records, "in that night was Belshazzar the

king of the Chaldeans slain, and Darius the Median took the

kingdom." Dan. 5.30, 31. This being true, and that kingdom

coming to its end in B. C. 538, it follows that this vision must

have been about B. C. 541.

Inasmuch as in this vision four universal kingdoms span

the history from Daniel's day to the end, just as in the dream

of Daniel 2, the first beast here brought to view must symbolize

the same power that was represented by the head of gold in the

great image,—Babylon.

The kingdom of Babylon, as noticed in this prophecy,

continued less than seventy years. More than half of that

time the kingdom was ruled by Nebuchadnezzar. It was during

his reign that the kingdom made all of its mighty conquests.

His successors, each in turn, became less bold and aggressive,

until the weak and pusillanimous Belshazzar, who possessed

none of the brave and noble. qualities of Nebuchadnezzar.

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The marginal reading of verse 5 says, "raised up one

dominion." Darius, the Mede, and Cyrus, the Persian, were

associated together in the conquest and overthrow of Babylon.

As an act of courtesy on the part of Cyrus, the rulership of the

newly-formed kingdom was given to his uncle, Darius. But

in a short time the Persian became the ruling element in the

kingdom. Thus the dual kingdom represented by the bear is

said to have exalted one branch above the other.

The bear is a bloodthirsty animal, and that bloodthirsty

disposition of the Medes and Persians is supposed to have been

further stimulated by the overthrow of the three provinces of

Babylon, Lydia, and Egypt.

The two wings added to the lion fitly represented the

rapidity of the conquests of that empire under Nebuchadnezzar.

Upon this leopard beast are not only wings, which are unnatural

to a beast, but also an unnatural number of wings. This most

fittingly represents the unparalleled rapidity and celerity of

the movements of the Grecians under the reign of the intrepid

Alexander the Great, who, after conquering • the then known

world, died at the age of thirty-two years.

The four heads of this beast undoubtedly symbolize the

four divisions of Alexander's kingdom among his four leading

generals about twenty years after his death.

In the breaking up of the Roman dominion by the incur-

sion of tribes from the northward, ten kingdoms were established

upon the ruins within the boundaries of the old empire.

LESSON

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Papacy and Its Work.

JANUARY

16, 1904.

Questions.

I. Repeat Dan. 7:24. What was to arise after the

ten horns on the fourth beast, in this line of prophecy?

How was this power to compare with the first ten ?—

They were political powers ; this, then, to be diverse,

must be religious. What religious power, claiming

sovereignty, arose in the territory of the Roman Empire ?

—The papacy. What was this little horn first to subdue?

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Tell what three kingdoms, out of the ten, were subdued.

—The Heruli, Vandals, Ostrogoths. See Note I.

What attitude was this power to assume toward

the Most High? Repeat Dan. 7:25. Tell how the

papacy has fulfilled this specification. See Note

How were the saints of the Most High to be treated

by this power? What blasphemous attempt was to be

made by this power against the law of God? What

New Testament description do we 'have of this same

power ?

Thess.

:4.

What apparent change in the law of God is ac-

knowledged by nearly the whole Christian world?—

The substitution of the first day for the seventh as the

day of the Sabbath.

Was there to be a limit to the time that the little

horn power would have dominion over the saints, times,

and laws of the Most High? Dan. 7:25, last clause.

Note 3.

Give historical dates and facts, marking the begin-

ning and the termination of the temporal supremacy of

the papacy. Note 4.

Repeat Dan. 7:26. How long will it be before

this power will be consumed? Compare

Thess. 2:8.

How will the fate of this fourth beast differ from

that of the three which preceded it? Verses II,

12.

Note 5.

Who will then appear upon the scene as the right-

ful ruler of the kingdom which for a time had been

usurped by

Satan? Verse 27.

" This gospel of the kingdom shall be preached in all the world

for a witness unto all nations; and then shall the end come."

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Notes.

Following the Council of Nicea, called by Constantine

in A. D. 325, the Arian powers were uncompromisingly opposed

to the claims of supremacy put forth by the bishop of Rome.

The Heruli, in Italy, were the greatest foe of the papacy. 'The

pope's successor could not be chosen without their consent.

In A. D. 490" Theodoric the Great, king of the Ostrogoths,

desiring more territory, obtained a commission from Zeno,

emperor of the East, and a friend of the pope, to take possession

of Italy. After a three years' war, the Herulian kingdom in

Italy was overthron, Thus the first of the three opposing

powers to the establishment of the papal supremacy was

"plucked up by the roots," in the year 493. Yet the Ostro-

goths were also Arian, and still the bishop of Rome was in a

measure restrained, while the Vandals in Africa defied the

power of Rome. Next the Vandals fell before a conquering

army sent by Justinian, emperor of the East (534), and later

the Ostrogothic power was forever broken in Italy (538).

Thus was the way prepared for the exaltation of the Roman

bishopric.

The papacy has indeed spoken great words against the

Most High, by assuming titles- and prerogatives which belong

only to God. The following are samples of many quotations

that might be given.:—

"The most holy and most happy, who is the arbiter of

heaven and the Lord of the earth, the successor of St. Peter,

the anointed of the Lord, the master of the universe, the

father of kings, the light of the

world."—Titles assumed by

Pope Martin V, in despatches to his ambassador to Constan-

tinople.

"The pope is all in all, and above all, so that God Himself

and the pope, the vicar of God, are but one consistory."—

Hostiensis

Cap.

etc.

"Given in Rome from our palace, the Toth of February.

1817, the XIV jurisdiction of the most holy pontiff and father

in Christ, and Lord our God the pope, Leo XII,"

etc.—Conclu-

sion of Dr. Giustianni's ordination letter.

In Hebrew usage a time means a year. (See Dan.

It :13, margin.) The period given would therefore be a "time"

(I year), "times" (plural, 2 years), and a dividing, or half a

time (

year), all together, 3

years. In the reckoning of

Bible times, 360 days to the year, the period would be 1260

davq. We are dealing with symbolic prophecy, however, in

"Pray ye therefore the Lord of the harvest that He will send

forth laborers into His harvest."

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which one day, stands for a year (see Num. 14:34; Eze. 4:6),

so that the duration of the prophetic period would be 1260 years.

The last of the opposing Arian powers was plucked up

in 538, when' the Roman papacy was free to assert its sover-

eignty. Just 126o years from this date bring us to 1798, in

which year the French troops took the pope prisoner, and for

a time it appeared as though the papacy had received a death

blow.

When Babylon, Media-Persia, and Grecia came to the

end of their existence as empires, the people who composed

those kingdoms passed down and became merged into the suc-

cessive kingdoms. Thus "they had their dominion taken away;

yet their lives were prolonged for a season and a time." But

when the fourth beast shall be "slain, and his body destroyed,

and given to the burning flame," then shall "the kingdoms of

this world become the kingdoms of our Lord and of His Christ,

and He shall reign forever and ever."

LESSON IV.

—

The Vision of Daniel 8.

JANUARY

23, 1904.

Questions.

I. When did Daniel

have this second vision? Dan.

8:i. Note I.

To what place was Daniel taken in this vision?

Verse 2. Note 2.

Repeat verse 3. What was symbolized by this

ram? Verse

20.

What by the two horns, and by the

higher one coming up last ? Note 3.

Repeat verse 4. In what direction was the Medo-

Persian Empire to extend its conquests? To what

position did the ram attain?

Repeat verse 5. Of what was this goat a symbol?

Verse

21,

first clause. What was symbolized by the

great horn between his eyes? Verse 21, last clause.

T.ift uft your eyes and look on the fields; for they are white

already to harvest."

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Who was the first king of Grecia ?—Alexander the

Great.

Repeat verse 7. What was the attitude of this

goat toward the ram? What did he do to the two

horns of the ram?

Repeat verse 8. To what position did the goat

attain as 'compared to that of the ram? What happened

to the great horn between the eyes of the goat? When

was this great horn broken? Note 4. What came up

after this notable horn was broken? What was sym-

bolized by the breaking of the great horn and four others

coming up in its place? Verse

22.

Note 5.

Repeat verse 9. What did the prophet behold

as coming forth from one of the four horns of the goat?

To what position did this little horn power attain ? Re-

peat the comparative greatness of the powers represented

by the ram, the goat, and the little horn. In what direc-,

tions were the conquests of the little horn power?

What characteristic is given of this little horn

power by which it may be identified? Verse 25.

10.

What power, in the person of its rulers, stood up

against "the Prince of princes," Jesus Christ ?—Rome.

Acts 4.27•

II.

What subject is introduced in this vision, in addi-

tion to the ram, he goat, and little horn ? Verse 14.

In response to what conversation was this symbol of

the 2,30o days called forth? Verse 13.

12.

As Daniel sought for the meaning of this vision,

who_ appeared to him ? , Verse 15.

13.

What commission did the angel Gabriel then re-

"There shall be delay no longer"—our confidence.

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ceive ? Verse i6. _ Who, then gave to Daniel the inter-

pretation of the ram, the he goat, and the little horn?

14.

What does Daniel say of his understanding of the

vision? Verse 27. What part of the vision had not

been fully explained to him? What is the vision of the

2,300 days called? See margin of verse 14. What

assurance did Gabriel give Daniel concerning "the vision

of the evening and the morning"? Verse 26.

15.

Had Gabriel then fully completed his commission,

to make Daniel understand the vision? Why did he not

do so in chapter 8 ? See verse 27, first clause. What

would Daniel therefore confidently expect ?—Another

visit from Gabriel.

Notes.

This vision having been given to Daniel in the third year

of the reign of Belshazzar, that being the year when Babylon

was overthrown, it must have been about B. C. 538.

Prophets in heavenly vision are often taken to places

where the scenes opened up to them are to occur, so that they

are living amid the very events predicted by them, even though

those events may be thousands of years in the future.

The two horns on the ram symbolize the union of the

two nations, the Medes and Persians. The higher coming up

last signifies the fact that in a few years the Persian became

the leading element in the kingdom.

It is a fact noted in history that Alexander died in a

drunken debauch, at the age of thirty-two years, and at a time

when his kingdom was in the very height of its glory and great-

ness. Thus the kingdom represented by this horn was broken

"when he was strong."

While Alexander lived he made no provision as to who

would succeed him in his kingdom. About twenty years after

his death it was divided among his four strongest generals.

The student should note carefully the following division of

Alexander's kingdom, as it will have an important bearing upon

the events . studied in a future lesson in this series. Lysima-

chus had that portion lying to the north of Palestine, including

Thrace, Bithynia, and some smaller provinces of Asia Minor.

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Ptolemy took that portion to the south, including Egypt, Libya,

Arabia, and Palestine. Seleucus took the east,—Syria and all

the country to the river Indus. Cassander had Macedon an

Greece, lying to the west. Carefully note these divisions, as

given in "Great Empires of the Bible."

LESSON V.—The Two Thousand Three Hundred

Days.

JANUARY

30, 1904.

Questions.

I. What did Daniel say at the close of chapter 8

concerning the vision of that chapter? Verse 27, last

clause.

What part of Gabriel's commission then remained

unfulfilled ?

At the conclusion of Daniel's prayer, in the ninth

chapter, who again appeared to him ? Verses

20, 21.

Note I.

What does Gabriel tell Daniel he has returned to

him for? Repeat verse

22.

Repeat verse 23. When does Gabriel tell Daniel

he had received the commandment to come to his assist-

ance ? For what does he again say he has now come ?

What does he tell Daniel to consider ? What vision ?

Dan. 8 :26.

How much of the 2,300 days does Gabriel say

was to be allotted to Daniel's people, the Jews? Verse

24, first clause.

Repeat verse 25. What event does the angel say

would mark the beginning of this great prophetic period?

" This gospel of the kingdom shall 'be preached in all the world

for a witness unto all nations; and then shall the end come."

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How many years from that event does the angel

say would reach to Messiah, the Prince?—Sixty-nine

weeks-483 prophetic days-4831iteral years. .

What three decrees constitute "the commandment

to restore and to build Jerusalem"? Ezra 6 :14. Note

1o. Read carefully Ezra 7:11-28. What is the date

of this royal commandment to restore and build Jeru-

salem? See date in margin of Ezra 7. Notice that the

fifth month, Jewish, would be in the autumn, according

to the modern calendar.

1. Beginning in the autumn B. C. 457, to what date

do the 483 years reach ?—To the baptism or anointing

of Messiah the Prince, in the autumn of A. D. 27.

Mark :To, marginal date.

Proof:

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To 456. years before Christ (B. C. 457, autumn)

Add 2634 years after Christ (A. D. 27, autumn)

Total, 483 years

12.

How much remained, then, of the period allotted

'to the Jewish people?—One week, or seven years, reach-

ing to A. D. 34.

13.

What was to take place during this week? What

in the midst of the week? Verse 27. Note 3.

14.

Beginning in the autumn of B. C. 457, when

would the entire 70 weeks, or 490 years, allotted to the

Jews, terminate?—A. D. 34.

Proof: To 456/ years before Christ (B C. 457, autumn)

Add 333 years after Christ (A. D. 34, autumn)

Total, 490 years

15.

Did the gospel cease to go to the Jews exclusively

in A. D. 34? See Acts 8:1-5, 25 (date in margin).

" The advent message to the world in this generation"—our

watchword.

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16.

Beginning in the autumn of B. C. 457, when must

the whole period of 2,30o years terminate ?—The autumn

of 1844.

Proof

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To 4.56k, years before Christ (B. C. 457, autumn)

Add

1843

years after Christ, (A. D. 1844, autumn)

Total, 2300 years

17.

What event was looked for in the autumn of 1844 ?

-Students of prophecy looked for the second advent at

that date, when they saw that the prophetic period would

be fulfilled.

18.

What two events had they confused?—The

cleansing of the heavenly sanctuary and the destruction

of the earth by fire at the second coming of Christ.

(Future lessons will explain.)

Notes.

Since the vision of chapter 8 was in the last year of

Belshazzar, and the prayer of the ninth chapter in the first

year of Darius, who took the throne on the death of Belshazzar,

the time between the chapters need not have been more than a

few months, or even weeks.

Since it takes the commandments of Cyrus (B. C: 536—

Ezra I), of Darius (B. C. 519—Ezra 6), and of Artaxerxes

(B. C. 457—Ezra 7) to constitute "the commandment to restore

and build Jerusalem," it is apparent that we must date from

the last one, since the "commandment" was not complete until

Artaxerxes' decree was issued.

In the midst of this last seven-year period, or week, just

three and a half years from the autumn of A. D. 27, when

Jesus was anointed the Christ at His baptism, He was crucified

(the spring of A. D. 31), thus causing the sacrifices to cease.

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LESSON VI.—The Sanctuary and Its Cleansing—in

Type.

FEBRUARY 6, 1904.

Questions.

Repeat Dan. 8:14. What line of reasoning upon

tl.is text led to the conclusion that the second coming

of Christ would take place in the autumn of A: D. 1844?

Note

What does Dan. 8 :r4 say, would take place at the

end of the 2,300 days?

Repeat Heb. 8:1,

also 9:24. What literal sanc-

tuary Was in existence in A. D. 1844?

Repeat Heb. 9 :23.- Could' a sanctuary in heaven

need cleansing? Note

Study Lev. 16

:2.

What instruction was given

to Aaron concerning his entering the most holy place

of the typical sanctuary?

Repeat Heb. 9:6, 7. By whom alone, and how

often, was the most holy place to be entered?

Study carefully Lev. 16:5, 7-10. What was to

be taken from the congregation of the children of Israel?

Where, and before whom, were these two goats, pre-

sented?, How was

a selection made between these two

goats? For whom were these goats thus severally set

apart? What was done with the goat upon which the

lot fell to be the Lord's? For what purpose was the

scapegoat reserved? •

Study verses 15, 16. What was then done with

the Lord's goat? Where was the blood brought? Upon

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what was the blood sprinkled? What was thus made

on behalf of Israel?

9. Repeat verse 19. What was thus done to the

:.:Inctuary ? From what was it cleansed? Was this

cleansing of the sanctuary, then, from physical or from

moral uncleanness? How had the sins of Israel been

transferred to the sanctuary, and how were they removed

once every year by this ceremony ?

Io. Repeat verses

21, 22.

After the sins of Israel

had been borne • from the sanctuary, in the person of

the high priest, what did he do with them? What was

then done with the live goat? What was the principal

difference between the death of these two goats? Note 3.

11.

What is the difference between the death of Christ

and the death that Satan will experience?

12.

Repeat Phil. 3:1o. What did the apostle desire to

be made "conformable" unto? What choice is left for

you and me to make? Note 4.

Notes.

I. This text states that at the end of the 2,300 days, "then

shall the sanctuary be cleansed." When the believers in the

great advent message found that those days were to end in

1844 A. D., they reasoned that the earth was the sanctuary;

that its cleansing would be by fire, at the second coming of

Christ; therefore Christ must come on the tenth day of the

seventh month, in that year. They overlooked the fact that

nowhere in the Bible is the earth spoken of, or referred to, as

the sanctuary. They overlooked the fact, also, that the only

sanctuary in existence in A. D. 1844 was the one in heaven,

where our Great- High Priest ministers.

2. By a careful study of the yearly rounds of service in

that sanctuary built by Moses, with its two holy places, which

were "figures of the true," the great truth is revealed that the

sins of all who repent and turn to God are transferred to

the heavenly sanctuary, and that the cleansing of that sanc-

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tuary will be the removal of those sins, when the blotting-out

time comes. See Acts 3 :19, 20.

The slaying of the Lord's goat represented a voluntary

death TO sin. The goat for Azazel, that was sent away to

"bear upon him all the iniquity of the children of Israel,"

represented an involuntary death IN sin.

The same choice that was left to Christ, after He had

"taken man's place, with all of its risks and liabilities," to die

a voluntary death to sin, or suffer an involuntary death in sin,

is also left for us to make. "The wages of sin is death."

The old man must die. Either he will be "crucified with

Christ," or perish in the lake of fire with Azazel.

LESSON VII.—The Sanctuary and Its Cleansing—in

Antitype.

FEBRUARY

13, 1904.

Questions.

I. Outline as

fully as you can the ceremony of the

cleansing of the typical sanctuary, as studied in last

week's lesson.

Of what was each year's round of service in that

earthly sanctuary a complete type? Heb. 8:4, 5. Note I.

Repeat Heb. 9:25, 26. How often will those

services which in the type were performed once every

'year be performed in the antitype ?

What was the last solemn act performed in each

year's round of service in the type?

What consequence followed indifference on the

part of any person on that solemn day of atonement ?

Lev. 23 :28, 29.

Then what decision must have been reached before

that cutting off could take place?

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What solemn event, then, was typifie 1 each year

by the ceremony which was performed on the day of

atonement? •

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Repeat Acts 17:3x. Has the time for such an

event been appointed? What assurance has been given

that the judgment will take place?

Repeat Heb. 9 :24. Of what were the two holy

places in the typical sanctuary, figures? Then how

many apartments or holy places are there in the heavenly

sanctuary?

ro. What portion of the year did the priests minister

in the first or holy place? How long in the second or

most holy?

Ir. How many chief men ministered in connection

with the high priest in the typical service? i Chron.

24 :4.

12.

Study Rev. 4:1-4. Where did John see a door

opened ? What description is given of One who sat

upon a throne? Who alone can answer to this descrip-

tion? What was seen round about the throne? Who

were sitting upon these four and twenty seats? With

what were they clothed? What is this "white raiment"?

Rev. 19:8. To what company, then, must these four

and twenty elders belong? Note

Who, then, will

take part in the work of the judgment, as representatives

or humanity? Note 3.

13.

What in the antitype answers to the cutting off

of those who, in the typical service, did not afflict their

souls on the day of atonement? See Rev. 3 :15.

14.

Repeat Acts 3 :19. What in the antitype answers

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to the removal of sins once every year from the typical

sanctuary? Repeat Acts 3:19.

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15. What will be the last solemn act of our Great

High Priest, as He closes His priestly work?—He will

bear the sins of believers out of the sanctuary.

16. When Christ bears the sins of the overcomers

from the most holy place of the heavenly sanctuary,

upon whom will He place them ? Note 4.

Notes.

i. Each year's round of services in the earthly sanctuary

was a complete type of the entire priesthood of our Saviour.

It is evident that these "four and twenty elders" seated

upon thrones, and those associated with them, are persons who

have been redeemed from this earth. It is that company who

"came out of their graves after His resurrection." Matt.

27 :50-53. It is that multitude of

captives

(Eph. 4:8, margin)

that Jesus led up to heaven with Him when He ascended.

It is a glorious thought that, when "God shall judge

the world, by that Man whom He bath ordained," the One to

whom all judgment has been committed will be "the Man

Christ Jesus," One who has suffered, as a man, all the weak-

nesses and temptations of humanity, and therefore is fitted to

be a merciful and faithful High Priest. Not only so, but asso-

ciated with that "Man Christ Jesus" is a multitude of those

who have been redeemed by His blood. Oh, how much better

that your sins and mine be "opened beforehand" to the scrutiny

of that human-heavenly tribunal, while the precious blood of

the Man of Calvary is efficacious in blotting them from the

books of God's remembrance, than to have them "follow after"

and meet us at a time when they will be opened to the

gaze

of the whole universe.

When our High Priest, in His own person, bears our

sins from the sanctuary, those sins will then be rolled back

upon the head of the antitypical scapegoat, the originator of sin.

expend sixty per cent of our efforts upon four per cent of

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LESSON VIII.—The Judgment.

FEBRUARY 20, 1904.

Questions.

I. Repeat Acts 17:31. What does this text say has

been appointed?

In the days of the apostles was this event past,

present, or future? Acts 24:25.

What work have we found to be synonymous

with the judgment ?—The cleansing of the sanctuary.

Repeat Dan. 8:14. When did the angel tell

Daniel that event would begin? b.

When did the 2,30o days end?

Since A. D. 1844, then, what has been the message

of "present truth"? Rev. 14:7. See also Dan. 7:9,

11.

Repeat Ps. 9 :7,

8. For what has God prepared

His throne?

Whom does this text say will be judged?

To whom has the Father committed the work of

judgment? Johfi 5 :22. Why? Verse 27.

Repeat 2 Cor. 5:1o. How many of us will be

brought into the judgment? What reward Will each

one receive?

to, Repeat Rom. 14:10-13. What questions does the

apostle ask? What reason is given why we should not

judge one another? To whom must every knee bow,

and tongue confess? Of whom will each one be called

to give account ? In view of this, what should we not

do any more ?

Study

Peter 2:4, 9. Who besides man are

reserved to judgment? See also Jude 6.

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12.

Repeat Eccl. 3 :17. Will the judgment occupy

time?

13.

Repeat i Cor. 4 :5. What are 'those doing who

jt dge one another now? When will be the time for

judgment? Note I. What will then be brought to

light? What will every man then have?

14.

Repeat

Tim. 4:i. When does this text say the

living and the dead will be judged?

15.

Repeat Rev.

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:18. how many events are here

sociated with the judgment ?

16.

What did Christ command His followers to preach

unto the people? Acts to :41, 42.

17.

According to what will men be judged? Rom.

2:16.

18.

Repeat Eccl. 12:13, 14. What is the conclusion

of the whole matter? What is declared to be the whole

duty of man? What will God bring into judgment?

Notes.

1. God "hath committed all judgment unto the Son." He

has also "appointed a day in the which He will judge the world

in righteousness, by that Man whom He bath• Ordained." There-

fore he who judges another has climbed up into the seat of

God, thus saying' that he is God. That is nothing short of

.the papacy, the man of sin. He not only assumes the preroga-

tives of God, but is meting out judgment before the time.

"Let us not therefore judge one another any more."

" Lift up your eyes and look on the fields; for they are while

already to harvest."

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LESSON IX.—The Eastern Question.

FEBRUARY

27,

1904.

Questions.

Repeat Dan.

II :1.

Who is the speaker? Whom

does Gabriel say he stood to confirm and strengthen ?

When ?

Verse

What did Gabriel say he would show

Daniel ? How many kings did he say would yet reign

in Persia? How did he say the fourth one would com-

pare with the others? What did he say this fourth king

would accomplish through his riches ? Note

Verse 3. What is the character of the king here

brought to view ? How was this king to rule ? What

king of Grecia fulfilled these specifiCations ? Note

Verse 4. What was to happen to Alexander's

kingdom ? How was it to be divided ? Was the king-

dom to fall into the hands of Alexander's posterity ?

How was this fulfilled? Note 3.

Verse 5. Of these four divisions of Alexander's

kingdom, which one was the kingdom of the south ?

What is said of the king of the south? What is said

of one of Alexander's princes ? Which one of Alex-

ander's princes soon became so strong as to possess

three out of the four original divisions of the empire?

Note 4.

What two powers then became "the king of the

south" and "the king of the north" ? Note 5.

Outline verses 6-14. Note 6.

Verse 14. In those times, about B. C. 200, who

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forth laborers into His harvest."

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were to stand up against Egypt, the, king of the south?

What new power is here introduced in this line of

prophecy ? Note 7.

9. Verse 16. Where was this rising power of Rome

to stand, and what destruction was to be accomplished

by his hand? Note 8.

to. Verse 19. The history of what Roman ruler

fulfilled the events of this verse? Note 9.

t. Verse

20.

Who succeeded Julius Caesar? How

is he designated in this verse? What Roman emperor

justly earned the title of "a raiser of taxes"? Luke

:I. How is the death of Augustus referred to in the

prophecy? Note 1o.

12.

Verse

21.

Who succeeded Augustus Caesar as

emperor of Rome? How were his character and reign

foretold in this verse? Note i1.

13.

Verse

22.

What note does the prophecy in this

verse make of the death of Tiberius Caesar? Who else

was to be cut off during the period of the reign of

Tiberius ?

Notes.

1. Cyrus died in the year B. C. 529, and was succeeded

by his son, Cambyses, who reigned seven years. Cambyses

was succeeded by Smerdis, an impostor, who reigned but eight

months, being succeeded in B. C. 521 by Darius Hystaspes.

Darius Hystaspes reigned thirty-six years, and was succeeded

by Xerxes in the year 485 B. C. Xerxes, by his strength and

through his riches, did stir up all against the realm of Grecia.

He collected the most numerous army ever marshaled for war,

estimated by careful historians to have numbered 2,641,610

fighting men, with an equal number of attendants, making a

total of 5,283,220. This army was seven days and seven nights

crossing the Dardanelles, on two immense bridges of boats built

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for the purpose. Xerxes was the last of the Persian monarchs

who invaded Grecia; therefore the prophecy takes no note of

his eight successors, but passes, as we shall see, in the third

verse, to the empire of Grecia.

Truly it may bw said of Alexander the Great that he did

according to his will. His entire reign was one of unparalleled

conquest, and at the age of thirty-two years he is said to have

conquered the whole of the then known world, and to have

' wept because there was not another world to conquer.

Within twenty years of Alexander's death it is said that

there was not one of his posterity left, and his kingdom' was

divided toward the four winds, between his four leading gener-

als. See the territorial boundaries of these four divisions, as

outlined in Note 5, Lesson 4.

In B. C. 281, Lysimachus was slain in battle, and Seleu-

cus annexed all of his dominion; and as Lysimachus had pre-

viously conquered the territory assigned to Cassander, this

left Seleucus ruler of three of the four portions of the original

di'vision of Alexander's kingdom.

The successive rulers of that territory of the north,

which fell under the dominion of Seleucus, are referred to in

this prophecy as "the king of the north," while Egypt is called

"the king of the south."

Verses 6-14 refer to the frequent wars and intriguing

between Syria, the king of the north, and Egypt, the king of

the south. History supplies the details for' all these specifica-

tions of the prophecy.

"And in those times [about B. C. 203] there shall many

I Antiochus Magnus, king of Syria; Philip, king of Macedon

and many of the provinces which had revolted from Egypt]

stand up against the king of the south [Egypt] ; also the rob-

ers [breakers] of thy people [Rome] shall exalt themselves

[rear her head arnong the nations of earth] to establish the

vision [destined to exert a mielty influence among the nations

of earth in fulfilment of the prophecy till the end of time] ;

but they shall fall [be broken up into many kingdoms,

and

finally be "destroyed and given to the burning flame." Dan.

7 :Id."

In B. C. 63, Pompey, the Roman general, demolished

the walls of Jerusalem, transferred several cities from the

jurisdiction of Judea to that of Coel-Syria, and imposed tribute

upon the Jews. Thus -was Jerusalem placed by conquest in the

hands of that power which was to hold "the glorious land" in

its

iron grasp till it had utterly consumed it.

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9. Verse s9

.—"Then he [Julius Cxsar] shall turn his face

toward the fort of his own land [Rome] ; but he shall stumble •

and fall [assassinated by Brutus and Cassius and other con-

spirators, B. C. 44], and not be found."

so. Verse 20.—

Then shall stand up [reign] in his [Julius

Caesar's] estate a raiser of taxes [Augustus Caesar. see Luke

2:1] in the glory of the kingdom [the "Augustan Age," an

expression commonly used

to denote the golden age of Roman

history] ; but within few days he shall be 'destroyed, neither

in anger, nor in battle." Eighteen years after the taxing brought

to view, seeming but a "few days" to the distant view of the

prophet, Augustus Caesar died peacefully in his own bed at

Nola, whither he had gone to seek repose and health, A. D.

4, .in the seventy-sixth year of his age.

is. Verse 21.—

And in his [Augustus Caesar's] estate shall

stand up [reign] a vile person [Tiberius Caesar], to whom they

[the people of Rome] shall not give the honor of the king-

dom; but he shall come in peaceably, and obtain the kingdom

by flatteries."

It was through the flatteries of his mother, Livia, that

Tiberius reached the throne. But the citizens of Rome never

gave to him the respect and "honor of the kingdom," due to

an upright and faithful sovereign.

"Augustus rested his last hopes on Tiberius. It is almost

superfluous to enumerate the unworthy successors of Augustus.

Their unparalleled vices, and the splendid theater upon which

they were acted, have saved them from oblivion. The dark,

unrelenting Tiberius, the furious Caligula, the feeble Claudius,

the profligate and cruel Nero, the beastly Vitellius, and the

timid, inhuman Domitian, are condemned to everlasting infamy.

Rome groaned beneath an unremitting tyranny, which exter-

minated the ancient families of the republic, and was fatal to

almost every virtue and every talent that arose in that unhappy

period. Under the reign of these monsters the slavery of the

Romans was accompanied with peculiar circumstances."—Gibbon.

" This gospel of the kingdom shall be preached in all the world

for a witnesi unto all nations; and then shall the end come."

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LESSON X.—The Eastern Question (continued).

MARCH 5,

f9o4.

Questions.

I. Dan. I :23. After a league made by the JeWs

with Rome, how are the growth and work of that power

referred to in

this verse ? Note

Verse 24. How was Rome to enter upon the

fattest places of the province? What was she to do,

unlike her predecessors? Note

From whence, and

fo'r how long a time, was Rome to forecast devices?

Verse 29. What is meant by the expression, "at

the time appointed"? Note 3. To what period in

Roman history has the prophecy brought us ?—To the

rise of the papacy, which henceforth stands for Rome.

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4. Verse 31. What was to stand on the part of the

papacy ? What were they to do to the "sanctuary of

strength"? What was to be taken away? What was

to be established in its place? Note 4.

5. Study verses 32-35. What was the papacy to do

to those who wickedly departed from the covenant ?

Who were to perform marvelous acts of self-sacrifice

and heroism in behalf of the true faith? Who were to

hold tip the torch of truth during the long, dark night

of papal rule ? By what means were the saints to fall

"many days"-126o years—from A. D. 538 to 1798.?

While the people of God were thus going down beneath

the hand of persecution, what were they to receive?

Note 5. How long were some of the saints of God to

be permitted to fall by persecution ?

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Verse 36. What atheistical power is introduced in

this verse ? Note 6.

Verse 37. What God was not to be regarded by

this power about the year 1798?

Verse 38. What strange god was to be honored

in place of the true God? Note 7.

Verse 39. For what purpose was the land to be

divided? Note 8.

, Notes.

In the year 161 B. C., the Jews were being continually

attacked by the Syrians, with whose forces they were unable

to cope. Being informed that the Romans were always ready

to support weak nations against the oppression of kings, whose

power gave them umbrage, it was thought necessary to make

an alliance with that people. Ambassadors sent to Rome for

this purpose were well received by the senate, and a decree was

passed, by which the Jews were declared friends and allies of

the Romans, and a defensive league was made with them..

At this time the Romans, who were still a small people,

were rapidly coming to the front, working deceitfully, or with

cunning, as the word implies, and by rapid strides they arose

to the height of their power. Thus Rome became strong with

a small people.

Verse 24.—"Ile [Rome] shall enter peacefully even upon

the fattest places of the province.; and he shall do that which

his fathers have not done, nor his fathers' fathers [receive

large acquisitions of territory through peaceful means, by leg-•

acy of other kings] ; he shall scatter among them the prey,

and spoil, and riches ; yea, and he shall forecast his devices

against [from] the strongholds [from the fortress of the seven-

hilled city], even for a time."

"Even for a time." This, doubtless, is a prophetic time,

which should be computed as follows: A time, I year, or 36o

days; each day for a year gives 36o years, during which, accord-

ing to this prediction, the empire was to be governed from the

city of Rome. The next verse introduces the battle of Actium,

which was fought between Egypt and Rome, in the year B. C.

31. Exactly 36o years from that date Constantine moved the

seat of the Roman Empire to Constantinople, A. D. 33o.

Verse 29.—"At the time appointed [A. D.

33o,

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clause of verse 24] he [Rome] shall return, and come toward

the south ; but it shall not be as the former, or as the latter."

The triumphs of former days were not repeated. The removal

of the seat of government from Rome to Constantinople, under

Constantine the Great, in A. D. 33o, is recognized as the signal

of the downfall of the Roman Empire.

Verse 31.—"And forces shall stand on his part, and they

shall profane the sanctuary, even the fortress, and shall take

away the continual ["burnt-offering" supplied], and they shall

set up the abomination that maketh desolate."—American Re-

vision. The papacy was fully established in the year 538, the

beginning of the 5260 years of papal supremacy.

Verse 34.—"Now when they [the people of God] shall

fall, they shall be holpen with a little help [fulfilled by the

influence of the great Reformation]."

Verse 36.—Evidently a new power is here introduced,

and it must be an atheistical power, in the fullest sense of that

term, inasmuch as it was to regard neither the God of heaven

nor any God ; and this development is to be met about the

year 1798, which period is referred to as the time of the end.

"France is the only nation in the world concerning which

the authentic record survives that as a nation she lifted her

hand in open rebellion against the Author of the universe.

France stands apart in the world's history as the single state

which, by the decree of her legislative assembly, pronounced

that there was no God, and of which the entire population of

the • capital, and a vast majority elsewhere, women as well as

men, danced and sang with joy in accepting the announcement."

—Quotation from Blackwood's Magazine.

"The world for the first time heard an assembly of men,

born and educated in civilization, and assuming the right to

govern one of the finest of the European nations, uplift their

united voice to deny the most solemn truth which man's soul

receives, and renounce unanimously the belief and worship of

Deity."—Scott's Napoleon.

"At this juncture all religious worship was prohibited,

except that of liberty and the country. The gold and silver

plate of the churches was seized upon and desecrated. The

churches were closed. The bells were broken and cast into

cannon. The Bible was publicly burned. The sacramental ves-

sels were paraded through the streets on an ass, in token of

contempt. The weekly rest was abolished, and death was de-

clared, in conspicuous letters posted over their burial places,

to be an eternal sleep."—U.

Smith, in Thoughts on Daniel.

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"One of the ceremonies of this insane time stands un-

rivaled for absurdity combined with impiety. The doors of the

convention were thrown open to a band of musicians, preceded

by whom the members cf the municipal body entered in solemn

procession, singing a hymn in praise of liberty, and escorting,

as the object of their future worship, a veiled female, whom

they termed the Goddess of Reason. . . . To this person,

as the fittest representative of that reason whom they worshiped,

THE NATIONAL CONVENTION OF FRANCE REN-

DERED PUBLIC HOMAGE."—Scott's

Napoleon.

Prior to the French Revolution, the landed property of

France was owned by a few landlords in immense estates, the

laws being such that these estates could not be divided or sold.

During that frightful period of revolution, when no law was

recognized, these estates were confiscated, divided up, and sold

for the benefit of the public exchequer.

"The confiscation of two-thirds of the landed property

. the kingdom, which arose from the decrees of the Convention

against the emigrants, clergy, and persons convicted at the

Revolutionary Tribunal, . . . placed funds worth above

£700,000,000 sterling at the disposal of the government."—Ali-

son, vol. IV, p. 151.

LESSON XI.—The Eastern Question (concluded).

MARCH 12, 1904.

Questions.

i. Dan.

:36-39. What nation have we found ful-

filled the specifications of the prophecy recorded in these

verses

Verse 40. "At the time of the end" (1798) what

attitude was Egypt, "the king of the south," to assume

toward France? How was Turkey, "the king of the

north," to. come against France at the same time? What

was to be the success Of the Turkish arms in this triple

v:ar? Does history record such a triple war

in 1798,

in which these three powers were involved ? Note

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Verse 41. How is the success of Turkey, "the

king of the

north," still further foretold in this verse?

V.That three

powers were to

escape the conquests of

Turkey ? Note 2.

Verse 42. What land was not to escape the rav-

ages of Turkey ? Note 3.

.Verse 4-3. Over what was Turkey to retain

power ?

Verse 44. By tidings from what quarters was

Turkey to be troubled? What was this to incite Turkey

to do ? Note 4.

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Dan. II :1-44. How many of the predictions re-

corded in these verses have been wrought out in history?

What may be said of the remaining verse of this re-

markable chapter ? Note 5.

Verse 45. According to this prophecy, where

must Turkey remove her seat of government? What

is suggested a,s the reason why Turkey will come to his

end in Europe? Has Turkey been upheld by other

powers? Note 6.

Give the main facts in the rise of the Ottoman

Empire. Note 7.

io. How exactly has history prescribed the date

when Othman began to invade the Greek territory?

Note 8.

I. Rev. 9 :io. How long were the Mohammedan

invading forces to have poiver to hurt men? How many

literal years in five prophetic months (3o days to the

month, according to ancient usage) ? Adding 150

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years to July 27, 1299, would bring us to what date?—

July 27, 1449, in which year the Greek emperor virtu-

ally surrendered to the Turkish power, occupying the

throne of Constantinople only by permission of the

sultan.

12.

Rev. 9:15. How Much time is here allotted to

the supremacy of the Ottoman Empire, following the

15o years of verse 1o? Note 9.

13.

What calculation was made by Josiah Litch in

1838 ?" Note io.

14.

Did events transpire on Aug. II, 1840, to justify

this application of the prophecy? Note I

Notes.

t. On the 5th of March, 1798, Bonaparte received the de-

cree of the French Directory relative to the expedition against

Egypt. He left Paris May 3, and set sail from Toulon on

the 19th, with a large naval armament, consisting of 500 sail,

carrying 40,000 soldiers and 10,00o sailors. July 5, Alexandria

was taken and fortified. On September of this same year, the

sultan of Turkey declared war against France. Thus the king

of the north (Turkey) came against him (France) in the same

year that the king of the south (Egypt) "pushed," and all at

the time called for in the prophecy,—the time of the end. On

the 18th of March, 1799, the siege of Acre was begun. After

the seige had been kept up sixty days, it was raised, and Na-

poleon sounded, for the first time in his career, the note of

retreat, and on the 21st of May commenced to retrace his steps

to Egypt. Turkey (the king of the north) came off the victor

in that struggle, driving the French back into Egypt. Thus the

king of the north (Turkey) "overflowed and passed over."

2. The French, after the siege of Acre, abandoned all that

they had gained in the land of Judea, which is called in the

prophecy "the glorious land," and it fell back into the hands

of the Turks, under whose domination it still remains. Dr.

Adam Clarke remarks concerning the countries of Edom, Moab.

and Ammon, lying outside the limits of Palestine: "These and

other Arabians they [the Turks] have never been able to sub-

clue. They still occupy the deserts, and receive a yearly pension

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forty thousand _crowns of gold

from the Ottoman emperors

to permit the caravans with the pilgrims from Mecca to have

a free passage."

Egypt, desiring to escape from Turkish rule, preferred

to be under the domination of the French. But the tide of

events turned otherwise. The English, as the ally of the Turks,

determined to wrest Egypt from the French. After a series

of battles, in which the French were worsted by the combined

forces of the English and the Turks, the whole of the French

army was shut up in Cairo and Alexandria. Cairo capitulated

June 27, i8o1, and Alexandria on September 2. Four weeks

later (October I), the preliminaries of peace were signed at

London.

It is a remarkable fact that in the year 1825, twenty-

eight years before the Crimean War broke out, Dr. Adani

Clarke, in commenting upon the fulfilment of this very proph-

ecy, wrote the following comment : "This part of the prophecy

is allowed to be yet unfulfilled. If the Turkish power be under-

stood, as in the preceding verses, it may mean that the

Persians

on the

east

and the

Russians

on the

north

will at some time

greatly embarrass the Ottoman government."

Just twenty-eight years after Dr. Clarke penned this sug-

gestion, the world was amazed to see Turkey, a government

which had long been regarded as "the sick man of the east,"

declare war against her powerful neighbor, Russia. Thus

Turkey fulfilled the specifications of this part. of the prophecy,

which describes her as going "forth with great fury."

As Dr. Clarke said of the 44th verse in 1825, we can

now say of this 45th verse,—it is yet unfulfilled. All except

the closing verse of this remarkable chapter has now been .

wrought out in history. We must look to Turkey to fulfil

the movement predicted in this verse.

The expression, "none shall help him," clearly implies

that he has previously been helped by other powers. In the

war with France (1798-1801), England and Russia assisted

the sultan. In the war between Turkey and Egypt (1838-184o),

England, Russia, Austria, and Prussia. intervened in behalf of

Turkey. In the Crimean War (1853-1856), England, France,

and Sardinia supported the Turks. In the Russo-Turkish War

of 1877-78, the great powers of Europe interfered to arrest the

progress of Russia.

Since the death of Mohammed, A. D. 622, his followers,

the -wild hordes of barbarians, were under no general' civil gov-

expend sixty per cent of our efforts upon four per cent of

our field.

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ernment. Gibbon refers to them as "this shipwreck of nations."

The first king who organized those tribes into a government

was Osman, afterward called Othman. The rise and progress

of Mohammedanism is the subject of a prophecy recorded in

the ninth chapter of the Revelation. The first incursions of

these hoi'des is described in verses 1-3. The beginning of

Othman's reign is noted in the firth verse, *here it is stated that

"they had a king over them." From this point the Ottoman

Empire began to fulfil its , mission as one of the scourges of

the corrupt Roman Empire—the destroyer of the Greek or

eastern portion of it, ruled from Constantinople.

Gibbon says :

It was on the twenty-seventh day of July,

in the year twelve hundred and ninety-nine of the Christian

era, that Othman first invaded the territory of Nicomedia; and

the singular accuracy of the date seems to disclose some fore-

sight of the rapid and destructive growth of the monster."—

Chapter LXIV, par. 14.

The time allotted for the Mohammedan conquest was

given as "five months," and a further period of "an hour, a day,

and a month, and a year" was allotted to its supremacy. This

being prophetic time, must be reckoned in the following manner,

from the initial date as given by Gibbon:—

Date given by Gibbon

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July 27, 1449

"An hour," 24th part of a day-15 literal days..Aug. 11,

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"A month," 3o days-3o literal years

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"A year," 36o days-36o literal years

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Io. In the year 1838, two years prior to the above date,

Josiah Litch, one of the Advent believers, of Boston, Mass..

published the statement, based upon the above calculation, that

the Ottoman supremacy would cease on the 11th day of August,

1840. Being challenged as to how much he would venture on

the prediction, he said, "I will stake my belief in the inspiration

of the old Book [meaning the Bible] that the event will trans-

pire on that day."

is. It is a remarkable historical fact that the ultimatum

drawn up by the great powers (England, Austria, Prussia, and

Russia), dictating terms of settlement with the pasha of Egypt,

with whom the Porte was then at war, was submitted to th-

Turkish Government for acceptance, and by the sultan's agents

was placed in the hands of the opposing ruler, ON THE 11TH

DAY OF AUGUST, 5840. By the acceptance of this ulti-

matum, the independence of the Ottoman power came to an

end, and it has since existed only on sufferance of the powers.

Nine-tenths of the women of India never heard of a Saviour.

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LESSON XII.—The Standing up of Michael.

MARCH 19, 1904.

Questions.

Repeat Luke

21 :25, 26.

- In the signs 'given by

our Saviour, where were distress and perplexity to be

seen? What was to cause men's hearts to fail them for

fear?

What power has for the past fifty years caused

more unrest and uneasiness among the great European

nations than all other questions combined? Note 1.

Of what sublime events will the driving of the

Turk from the soil of Europe be the signal? Note

Repeat Dan.

12:1,

What does the term to

"stand up," as used in this prophecy, mean? Who is

Michael ? Compare

Thess.

4:16,

Jude 9, and John

5:25,

28.

How great a time of trouble is to follow the

standing up of Michael? What will God's people then

experience? How many will thus be delivered?

Repeat Rev. 3:5. Whose names only will be re-

tained in the book of life?

Repeat Luke

10:20.

What is great cause for

rejoicing?

Rev.

20:15.

Will search .be made for the names

which have been entered as candidates for eternal life?

What will be the fate of those whose names shall then

have been blotted out ? Is your name written there ?

Will it be retained, or blotted out?

To what events, then, do the first two verses of

Daniel

bring us?

Repeat Ps.

2:8,

9. What inheritance and pos-

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session was promised to Christ? What disposition is

He to make of the heathen nations when they are given

to Him ?

1o. Study Dan.

2:34,

35, 44. Does the promise in

the second psalm harmonize with the prophecy of this

chapter?

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Dan. 7:14, 27. Does it harmonize with the

prophecy of Daniel 7 also?

Notes.

I. Lord Salisbury, prinie minister of Great Britain, in a

speech delivered Nov. 9, 1895, uttered the following words :—

"Turkey is in that remarkable condition that it has now

stood for half a century, mainly because the great powers of

the world have resolved that for the peace of Christendom it

is necessary that the Ottoman Empire should stand. They

came to that conclusion nearly half a century ago. I do not

think they have altered it now."

It must be clear to every careful reader that the driving

of the Turk from the soil of Europe will be the fulfilment o'

the closing verse of the eleventh chapter of Daniel's prophecy.

What makes this line of prophecy of momentous interest to

every one now living is the fact that the downfall of the

Turkish Empire will be the signal of the most sublime events

that the world has ever witnessed. The prophecy closes with

the first two verses of chapter 12.

LESSON XIII.—The Battle of Armageddon.

MARCH 26,

Questions.

1. Repeat Rev. 16:12-16. Where is the vial of the

sixth angel to be poured out? With what result? For

what was this to prepare the way? From what source

were three unclean spirits to come? What are these

unclean spirits declared to be? What were they to

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perform? What was to be their mission? What

warning and admonition are here given to God's people ?

To what place were the kings of the earth and of the

whole world to be gathered ? Of what is the prepara-

.tory work of the sixth plague a sign ? Note I. What

signs appear of the gathering storm? Note

Repeat Rev. 7:1-3. When the kings of the earth

are assembling and the plagues about to fall, what

restrains the great battle of Armageddon ? What work

for God's people must be accomplished before that battle

takes place? What will immediately follow this sealing

work ?

Study Eze. 9:r-6. What work is brought to view

in these verses ? Through what place was this angel

commissioned to go? What is represented by Jeru-

salem? Upon whom was this angel commanded to set

a mark? Where, then, were these "abominations" to' be

found ? What commission was given to other angels ?

To whom were the destroying angels not to come near?

With what divine promise is this in harmony? Ps.

91 :1o.

Repeat

Jer.

25:32, 33. From whence does the

prophet say evil shall go forth? What does he say will

be raised up? Of what are winds a symbol ? What

will be the result of that world-wide conflict?

Notes.

It seems evident that the preparatory work of the sixth

plague,—the gathering of the kings of the East, in readiness

for the opening of the battle of Armageddon,—is a movement

that takes place before the seven last plagues begin to fall.

In other words, this movement on the part of the kings of the

East will be a sign that probation is about to close, and the

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plagues about to fall, also that the battle of Armageddon is

about to begin. See "Early Writings," • Supplement to Experi-

ence and Views, par. 3.

2. The civilized nations have a combined military strength

of eighty millions, awaiting the crisis. Napoleon Bonaparte,

while a prisoner on the island of St. Helena, 1815-21, made

the following statement :—

"In the course of a few years, Russia will have Constan-

tinople, part of Turkey, and all of Greece. This I hold to be

as certain as if it had already taken place. All the cajolery

and flattery that Alexander practised upon me was to gain

my consent to effect that object. I would not give it, foreseeing

that the equilibrium of Europe would be destroyed. Once

mistress of Constantinople, Russia gets all the commerce of the

Mediterranean, becomes a naval power, and then God knows

what may happen."

The following is from a Turkish editor, of a paper called

the

Valeit:

"We shall do our utmost to keep England's support; but

at last, if we do not succeed in it, then it is very easy to know

what we have to do. When Europe will not look at us, then

we shall lay aside all the European customs which we have

adopted, and enter on our old way; from the boy of thirteen

to the old man of seventy-five, every one of us will be armed,

and we shall defend by- the will of God, and by the daring

of the old days, the country we have held for five hundred

years. And if the issue should come to this, as Islamism is

not confined to Turkey, then we wilb blend all the different

Moslem races into one; the Moslems of India, of Central Asia,

of the Caucasus, of Africa, and of Algeria will come forward,

and we shall again take measures which we once adopted for

the conquest of Jerusalem. We shall send proclamations every-

where, and declare a general war against Christendom. . . .

Then it will not be possible to subjugate 120,000,000 Moslems

by go,000sioo soldiers. If the Moslems all over the world rise

to defend their sacred religion, and if the treasure accumulated

every year at Mecca is disposed of for the protection of tb

Mohammedan faith, then the scenes of ancient European wars.

where the Moslems were both victorious and destructive, will

be repeated, and the progress and civilization of centuries will

be destroyed."

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